I understand wanting to put to bed the myth of Obama being a big spender and Republicans being fiscal conservatives. However, articles like the CBC one you link to make the egregious error of neglecting to point out why spending has decreased so during the Obama admin. The first couple of years, with the stimulus act, did see increased growth.
Then, starting in 2010, the House went Republican and you saw a great number of Tea Party-backed members get elected. At that point, spending becomes much more of a battle, culminating in the sequester and even the government shutdown. Spending gets lowered because of the sequester (in a stupid fashion, but certainly lower) and stays that way due to partisan gridlock. Attempt after attempt at "grand bargains" fail, super committees fail, things are stuck in neutral. I'm sure that the Obama admin would have liked to have had higher spending levels than they did. And it would have been much better for our economy if they had. Intransigence in Congress has managed to lower spending, true, but also totally retarded our economic recovery. Obama still would never have been anything like the caricatures drawn by right-wing hacks, of course, but I don't believe that you can legitimately blame/credit the admin for substantially lower spending levels over the last 3 years. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-barack-obama-big-spender-myth-1.2251993 > > interesting article that explodes the myth of the Obama administration as a > big spender. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368213 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
